Invention Application
- Patent Title: LOW FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING HYDRAULIC FRACTURE GEOMETRY
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Application No.: US17741197Application Date: 2022-05-10
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Publication No.: US20230003119A1Publication Date: 2023-01-05
- Inventor: Ge JIN , Baishali ROY
- Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
- Current Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Main IPC: E21B49/00
- IPC: E21B49/00 ; E21B43/26 ; G01V1/42 ; E21B47/113

Abstract:
Monitoring and diagnosing completion during hydraulic fracturing operations provides insights into the fracture geometry, inter-well frac hits and connectivity. Conventional monitoring methods (microseismic, borehole gauges, tracers, etc.) can provide a range of information about the stimulated rock volume but may often be limited in detail or clouded by uncertainty. Utilization of DAS as a fracture monitoring tool is growing, however most of the applications have been limited to acoustic frequency bands of the DAS recorded signal. In this paper, we demonstrate some examples of using the low-frequency band of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) signal to constrain hydraulic fracture geometry. DAS data were acquired in both offset horizontal and vertical monitor wells. In horizontal wells, DAS data records formation strain perturbation due to fracture propagation. Events like fracture opening and closing, stress shadow creation and relaxation, ball seat and plug isolation can be clearly identified. In vertical wells, DAS response agrees well with co-located pressure and temperature gauges, and illuminates the vertical extent of hydraulic fractures. DAS data in the low-frequency band is a powerful attribute to monitor small strain and temperature perturbation in or near the monitor wells. With different fibered monitor well design, the far-field fracture length, height, width, and density can be accurately measured using cross-well DAS observations.
Public/Granted literature
- US12173603B2 Low frequency distributed acoustic sensing hydraulic fracture geometry Public/Granted day:2024-12-24
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